Undergraduate Majors and Contacts
Welcome to the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. The college offers 24 majors encompassing agricultural sciences, natural resources, forest and geospatial sciences, social sciences, life sciences, and preprofessional studies.
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Contact information for degree programs is given below.
Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Specializations: Agrisystems Engineering, Biological Engineering, Land and Water Resources Engineering
Undergraduate Coordinator: Dr. James Leary
Student Services Coordinator:
Robin Snyder
Agricultural Education and Communication
Specializations: Agricultural Education, Communication and Leadership Development
Undergraduate Coordinator: Dr. Ricky Telg
Student Services Coordinator: Jodi DeGraw Modica
Agricultural Operations Management
Specializations: Construction and Process Management, Environmental Systems Management, Production Systems Management, Technical Sales Management
Undergraduate Coordinator: Dr. Wendell Porter
Student Services Coordinator:
Robin Snyder
Animal Sciences
Specializations: Animal Biology, Animal Industry
Undergraduate Coordinator: Dr. Joel Brendemuhl
Student Services Coordinator: Sylvia King
Biology
Specializations: Applied Science (27KB pdf), Biotechnology (28KB pdf), Natural Science (25KB pdf), Preprofessional (25KB pdf)
Undergraduate Coordinator: R. Elaine Turner
Student Services Coordinator: Robin Ezzell
Botany
Specializations: Basic Botany, Preprofessional Botany
Undergraduate Coordinator: Dr. Bernie Hauser
Entomology and Nematology
Specializations: Basic Science, Ecotourism, Plant Protection, Preprofessional, Urban Pest Management
Undergraduate Coordinator:
Dr. Carl S. Barfield
Student Services Coordinator: Debbie Hall
Environmental Management in Agriculture and Natural Resources
Undergraduate Coordinator: Susan Curry
Student Services Coordinator: Michael J. Sisk
Environmental Science
Specializations: B.A. Environmental Science, B.S. Environmental Science
Undergraduate Coordinator:
Dr. Stephen Humphrey
Student Services Coordinator: Meisha Wade
Family, Youth and Community Sciences
Undergraduate Coordinator: Dr. Jerry Culen
Student Services Coordinator: Jennifer Gove-Cooper
Food and Resource Economics
Specializations: Food and Agribusiness Marketing and Management, International Food and Resource Economics and Natural Resource, Environmental Economics and Policy
Undergraduate Coordinator: Mr. David Barber
Food Science and Human Nutrition
Specializations: Dietetics, Food Science, Nutritional Sciences
Coordinator:
Dr. Anne Kendall
Student Services Coordinators: Janna Underhill and Nicole Young
Forest Resources and Conservation
Specializations: Business Management, Environmental Pre-law, Forest Resource Management, Forest Informatics, Protected Areas Management, Recreation Resource Management, Urban Forestry, Watershed Science and Management
Undergraduate
Coordinator: Dr. George Blakeslee
Student Services Coordinator:
Mae Kiggins
Geomatics
Undergraduate Coordinators: Dr. George Blakeslee and Dr. Bon Dewitt
Student Services Coordinator:
Mae Kiggins
Golf and Sports Turf Management
Interdisciplinary Studies
Undergraduate Coordinator: Dr. Jason Kruse
Student Services Coordinator: Lisa Hall
Horticultural Science
Majors: Horticultural Production, Horticultural Science, Organic Crop Production, Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology
Undergraduate Coordinator: Dr. Rebecca Darnell
Student Services Coordinator: Curtis Smyder
Landscape and Nursery Horticulture
Specializations: Environmental Horticulture Operations, Landscape and Nursery Management, Public Garden Management
Undergraduate Coordinator: Dr. Mike Kane
Student Services Coordinator:
Lisa Hall
Microbiology and Cell Science
Undergraduate Coordinator: Dr. William Gurley
Student Services Coordinator: Chris Holyoak
Natural Resource Conservation
Undergraduate Coordinators: Dr. George Blakeslee and Dr. William M. Giuliano
Student Services Coordinator:
Mae Kiggins
Packaging Science
Undergraduate Coordinator: Dr. Bruce Welt
Student Services Coordinator:
Robin Snyder
Plant Science - Agronomy
Specializations: Science and Technology, Sustainable Crop Production and Management
Undergraduate Coordinator: Dr. Rosalie Koenig
Student Services Coordinator: Cynthia Hight
Plant Science - Plant Pathology
Specializations: Agricultural Technology, Biotechnology
Undergraduate Coordinator: Dr. James W. Kimbrough
Soil and Water Science
Undergraduate Coordinator: Dr. Mary Collins
Student Services Coordinator: Michael J. Sisk
Statistics
Undergraduate Coordinator: Dr. Ronald Randles
Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
Specializations: Biology Education, Preprofessional, Wildlife Ecology, Wildlife Conservation
Undergraduate Coordinator: Dr. William M. Giuliano
Student Services Coordinator: Claire Williams